A witness told Daily Voice he saw blood in the street while walking his children to day care.Photo Credit: Matthew SpeiserAt the scene.Photo Credit: Matthew SpeiserOld River Road, EdgewaterPhoto Credit: GoogleMaps

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UPDATE (7 p.m.):
The son of the former chief of staff to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's wife was charged Monday with aggravated manslaughter, weapons possession and hindering apprehension in the overnight stabbing death of a teenager in Edgewater.
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EDGEWATER, N.J. -- A teenage boy who was stabbed overnight in Edgewater later died at the hospital, authorities who were investigating the homicide told Daily Voice.

The victim -- who sources said was 16 -- was stabbed on Old River Road and was pronounced dead at Palisades General Medical Center around 3 a.m., they said.

Unconfirmed reports from a borough source were that he was from Rockland County and the assailant is from Edgewater.

Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir Grewal, who officially classified the death as a homicide, said he'll be issuing a news release.

The prosecutor's Major Crimes Unit and the Bergen County Sheriff's Bureau of Criminal Identification were at the location on Old River Road early Monday. Police taped off a stretch of storefronts from just north of Cafe Archetypus to the Mangia! Italian eatery at the northwest corner of Thompson Lane.

The killing follows a double-murder suicide by a local man who shot himself, his wife and his daughter at the The Windsor at Mariners Tower a short distance north in Edgewater a little over a month ago.

It was Bergen's second homicide of the year following what authorities said was the beating death of a North Arlington woman by her husband in their home on Friday.